Depressive black metal project with connections to Loviisa, Finland, formed in 2020, working in the introspective, stripped-down tradition of depressive black metal with a Scandinavian orientation despite its US registration. The band's name is a Swedish-inflected phonetic rendering suggesting woodland isolation.

Suffer the Gestalt is a depressive black metal project from San Jose, California, formed in 2020, channeling introspective despair and psychological bleakness into the DSBM tradition of slow, anguished compositions.

Philadelphia depressive black metal project formed in 2015, inhabiting the raw, emotionally harrowing corner of the black metal spectrum defined by minimalist production and themes of despair.

Maple Grove, Minnesota depressive black metal project formed in 2024, working within the DSBM tradition of minimalist, emotionally raw black metal with an emphasis on atmosphere over aggression.

Tucson, Arizona atmospheric and depressive black metal band formed in 2013, named after the notorious Aokigahara forest in Japan and drawing on themes of isolation and despair across bleak, fog-laden compositions.

Sukkubys is a depressive black metal project from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2023, channeling the introspective anguish and lo-fi bleakness central to the DSBM tradition.

Surfeiter is a Los Angeles depressive black metal and noise project formed in 2023, channeling desolate atmospheres and feedback-laden misery in a city better known for its sun but home to a thriving underground extreme metal scene.

Sverker is a Newark, Ohio depressive black and gothic metal project formed in 2020, blending the anguished minimalism of depressive black metal with gothic atmosphere and introspective darkness.

Coral Springs, Florida's The Blind Beholder operate in the atmospheric and depressive wing of black metal, building music that uses the genre's cold, minimalist textures to conjure isolation and inward collapse rather than outward fury. Formed in 2018, they channel something genuinely bleak into their sound — the kind of heavy music that feels less like an assault than a slow disappearance.